Video: Biden taking Obama’s deficit speech about as seriously as the rest of us
posted at 4:59 pm on April 13, 2011 by Allahpundit
It wasn’t a serious proposal, so why keep up the pretense by staying conscious? O did what he had to do for 2012 by checking the “Republicans hate grandma” box and Biden did what he had to do by checking the “sleepytime comes after lunchtime” box. Or maybe not — maybe he’s not sleeping here but actually concentrating really hard to try to figure out how the hell the rich are singlehandedly going to close a $76 trillion long-term “fiscal gap.”
A third possibility: Maybe Biden was awake, listening intently, and just … couldn’t take it. It was, after all, “pitiful.”
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Word around Newark, DE is that he had the same problem in his political science classes.
Slept right through them, apparently.
JohnGalt23 on April 13, 2011 at 5:01 PM
400% tax rates. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
angryed on April 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM
Wake up for Chuck, everyone!
Bishop on April 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM
This is a big fu…..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Mark1971 on April 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM
Shhhhh…Don’t wake Grandpa…
Oil Can on April 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM
Next thing you know it won’t be called ‘deficit’ or ‘national debt’.
It’ll be something completely opposite, like ‘our future surplus’ or something.
Sir Napsalot on April 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM
He’s meditating. Trying to will his hair to grow.
mizflame98 on April 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM
he had a case of puppy belly after lunch…full belly make puppy sweepy and need to take naaaaap.
Good thing Joe ain’t controlling aircraft over at Reagan.
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM
Timmy looked no better. His eyes were blinking so fast as he desperately tried not to snooze off. And what was the woman behind Biden doing?
AverageJoe on April 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM
HEH!!+++
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM
Duh… His pastor was preaching. It’s what all the cool cats do in church!
SnowSun on April 13, 2011 at 5:03 PM
Theres’s a video you won’t be seeing on the MSM palace guard news blocks tonight.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on April 13, 2011 at 5:04 PM
Biden is every idiots idol. What a moron.
jake-the-goose on April 13, 2011 at 5:04 PM
HA!
Weight of Glory on April 13, 2011 at 5:04 PM
See I am not the only one who lost interest after it was clear Obama wasn’t going to resign… that’s the only reason Biden goes to these things… me too!
It’s the only interesting thing Obama could possibly say.
petunia on April 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM
what is it with government employees and narcolepsy these days?? I mean, if it ain’t the TSA gropin’ the keeeyids, its the ATCs and VPs catching winks, c’mon!?
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Now, to be fair, the black woman looks like she’s nodding off and the woman behind Joe looks like she died. Barry must have ran out of unicorn dust.
mizflame98 on April 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Allah,
The $76T is a huge number of course. But I hate when this is broken down to a number owed by each American as this piece you link to does. $250K owed over 75 years doesn’t sound that bad. That’s $3333 a year. Yeah it’s a bit of coin, but it’s not exactly the apocalypse either.
Why I hate the breakdown per American angle is we all know that 1/2 the people don’t pay a dime in taxes. Which means it’s really $500K per person over 75 years or $6666 per year. Now we’re talking some real money.
And it’s not really $500K per person since of the 50% that actually pay SOME taxes, 50% of those people barely pay anything. Which means for the people who are going to pay for it all it’s $750K per person over the next 75 years or $10K per person in extra taxes every single year until we die.
angryed on April 13, 2011 at 5:06 PM
He’s already seen Obama try to make a dead cat bounce before…
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:06 PM
No, no, no….
It is ‘Kinetic Meditation’.
Yeah, that’s it.
Sir Napsalot on April 13, 2011 at 5:07 PM
I’m sure he was just praying.
ClanDerson on April 13, 2011 at 5:07 PM
It would have been great if Obama had called him out from the stage at that point, like Biden’s Chuck moment.
Mark1971 on April 13, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Biden thought Obama said “Rich people can now take a nap.” So having the President’s approval…
petunia on April 13, 2011 at 5:08 PM
This is a Big F*****g Deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM
maybe they were pumping fentanyl into the room. The same stuff those Russian Spetsnaz guys used to knock out those hostage takers.
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Didn’t get to see it, but from the comments, I was fired up angry. Most unserious president ever.
rbj on April 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Biden has a “time-limited, scope-limited” tolerance for Obama’s Bullsh**…..
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Judge Napolitano showed it on Glenn Beck and he and Huckabee are laughing at Joe snoozing.
mizflame98 on April 13, 2011 at 5:10 PM
I had America Live recorded via the DVR, which had the speech. Honest to goodness, I fell asleep too.
humdinger on April 13, 2011 at 5:10 PM
I notice those around him are sleepy too,maybe its a bad
batch of KOOL_AID!!
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:10 PM
I wonder if they served a huge turkey spread for lunch?
mizflame98 on April 13, 2011 at 5:11 PM
hehehe!!
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:11 PM
+1 — “Dear Lord, Please make him choose Hillary for his 2nd term VP so I can get off this Titanic!”
KS Rex on April 13, 2011 at 5:11 PM
maybe they were pumping fentanyl into the room. The same stuff those Russian Spetsnaz guys used to knock out those hostage takers.
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM
ted c:Sounds about right to me!!:)
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM
I wonder if Joe Biden woke up with his pants around his ankles, his wallet gone, and his butt a hurtin’???
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM
WINNER!
mizflame98 on April 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM
That’s awesome. Can you really blame Biden?
Hell, I can’t even listen to Obama, much less attend a speech in person.
chief on April 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:10 PM
hehehe!!
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:11 PM
ted c:I liked your fentanyl angle better tho,haha!:)
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM
They told me if I voted for McCain we would have a VP giving us embarrassing moments during speeches, and they were right.
Mark1971 on April 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM
someone should’ve yelled, “Last train to Wilmington!! Leaving Now!”
waaaaaa!
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM
Well the MSM seemed to just love it. Especially the part where he said Republicans were gonna kill Granny. Joe is just under a trance from hearing the words of his Messiah…
sandee on April 13, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Biden has a “time-limited, scope-limited” tolerance for Obama’s Bullsh**…..
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM
WINNER!
mizflame98 on April 13, 2011 at 5:12 PM
mizflame98:Agreed,Manchurian,er Stepford Husband,had a
gizmo implanted,and activated,to save Biden,
the Hopey spew!!!:)
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:15 PM
I bet when Biden woke up he told everyone about the bad dream he had. It was Obama and his teleprompters and how they had old speech from 2008 where Obama talked about taxing the rich, cutting the budget in half. He was then informed that that was actually not a dream.
WoosterOh on April 13, 2011 at 5:15 PM
hilarious
lexhamfox on April 13, 2011 at 5:16 PM
someone should’ve yelled, “Last train to Wilmington!! Leaving Now!”
waaaaaa!
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:13 PM
ted c:)
***************ALL-ABOARD*********************************
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:17 PM
This is just priceless. You can’t make this stuff up!
rjoco1 on April 13, 2011 at 5:17 PM
now that was funny
all he’s mising is s stream of drool puddling on his lapel.
DrW on April 13, 2011 at 5:17 PM
That image needs a “though bubble”, with suggestions as to what Biden’s dreamin’ about.
JetBoy on April 13, 2011 at 5:19 PM
Exit question. If we taxed the rich at 100%, do they even HAVE $76 Trillion?
MikeA on April 13, 2011 at 5:19 PM
$3333/per person/per year is going to break a whole lot of families– especailly when you add in the snowball effect of what that much of an increase in taxes is going to do to the overall economy. Less to spend = less purchases = less jobs.
Unless your solution was to uber-tax the rich, which has been proven a non-viable option numerous times, both here and elsewhere.
RachDubya on April 13, 2011 at 5:20 PM
Actually, I’ll disagree with this. I think he’s the sanest one in the administration. That’s what makes him look so awkward.
joejm65 on April 13, 2011 at 5:20 PM
My guess is it just sounds like the old TV test patter hum in there.
MikeA on April 13, 2011 at 5:20 PM
LOL
JetBoy on April 13, 2011 at 5:21 PM
Hahaha. Best HotAir comment of the day. Thanks for the laugh.
Renwaa on April 13, 2011 at 5:21 PM
Those train rides in from Delaware everyday take their toll..
Caper29 on April 13, 2011 at 5:22 PM
Major LOLz
Nelsen on April 13, 2011 at 5:22 PM
This is what chronic usage of Hopenchangium(tm) looks like. Sudden fits of narcolepsy, incoherent and erratic behavior, cursing, small animal abuse, theft, delusions etc…it’s on the package insert../
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:23 PM
That’s hilarious!!!
You should tweet that, Allah. You’ll be more famous than you already are.
Key West Reader on April 13, 2011 at 5:24 PM
the SNL skit on this one needs to have him reaching for a blankey and a teddy bear as Timmy G gently puts him on a kindergarten nap mat in the aisle. Maybe a binky or a bottle too.
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:25 PM
Vice President Joe Biden – Daydream Believer
Lily on April 13, 2011 at 5:25 PM
Last month, someone crunched a few numbers. If you confiscate the wealth of America’s 400 billionaires and applied it to this years deficit, you’d spend $1.3 trillion of their money and still show a deficit of $300 billion. So, the answer is ‘no’. :-)
joejm65 on April 13, 2011 at 5:26 PM
LOL.
lorien1973 on April 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM
Nap Czar
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM
I’m not sure about that but I do know I used think Biden was protecting Obama from impeachment procedings… but after the last few months even Biden is looking better than Obama.
petunia on April 13, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Ahh, the ole jelly neck head bob! LOVE IT!!
maintenanceman on April 13, 2011 at 5:30 PM
I hereby nominate “dozing Biden” as Obama’s new logo for 2012!!!
landlines on April 13, 2011 at 5:31 PM
That is sobering… and what about next year? Can this even be stopped at this point?
The numbers are so high I can’t get my mind around it at all.
petunia on April 13, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Correct on the species, wrong on the occasion.
Barnestormer on April 13, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Paul Ryan’s response to the speech should wake Joe up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnN0X-fi5ds&feature=channel_video_title
Missy on April 13, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Is there such a thing as a trillionaire? I’m serious, isn’t the very richest only a billionaire?
How in the world do Democrats think we could possibly tax our way out of this?
petunia on April 13, 2011 at 5:33 PM
He wakes up at “…tough luck, you’re on your own.”
Heh.
TexasDan on April 13, 2011 at 5:34 PM
The Congressional Budget Office estimate shows that compared with current spending rates the spending bill due for a House vote Thursday would pare just $352 million from the deficit through Sept. 30. About $8 billion in cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid are offset by nearly equal increases in defense spending.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/cbo-budget-deal-cuts-this-fiscal-years-deficit-by-just-353-million-not-38-billion-touted/2011/04/13/AFFJnkWD_story.html
sharrukin on April 13, 2011 at 5:34 PM
My solution is to cut spending. Don’t bite my head off just yet.
I am saying that when the media breaks down an incredibly huge number like $76 trillion into $3333 a year per person, it makes the situation seem a lot less dire. $3333 while a lot of money for most people isn’t THAT much money. It’s not a life changing amount for the vast majority of people. Do I prefer $3333 more vs. $3333 less? Of course. But if I have to pay an extra $3333 in taxes, it’s not exactly going to be the end of the world for me.
And yes I know, it will harm the economy. I know that. But, for the average low info person out there, they don’t see it that way. They see it as oh well, we all have to make sacrifices, so I’ll be taxed a little more in order to save SS and Medicare and all the other crap.
It also frames the debate on the Dem side on taxing the rich. Hey if it’s only $3333 per person per year, hell yea let’s tax the rich an extra $25,000 a year and that means 8 “regular people” don’t have to pay anything extra. After all for a millionaire, $25K won’t even be noticed.
Again, I don’t agree with it. But that’s how many people look at the issue.
angryed on April 13, 2011 at 5:34 PM
Meanwhile….Biden was dreaming…this…
Teletubbies Theme song
*************************
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTg_9teVTXY
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM
The White House spin will be that Biden wasn’t sleeping, he was just resting his eyes.
RedRobin145 on April 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM
I feel bad for him. You’ve got to think, Biden has heard this same crap over and over more than anyone else I bet.
ButterflyDragon on April 13, 2011 at 5:35 PM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was GREAT! I just watched the vid. What was the “older” person/woman doing behind sleepy (yes, one of the dwarfs)? Was he/she trying to hide the fact of trying to sleep as well? Wow, Odumba$$ can really tear down the house with his BS aye? Oh and why are they all dressed in black???????? Mourning the moron??
sicoit on April 13, 2011 at 5:36 PM
I certainly hope, for Joe’s sake, that he wasn’t humming a David Byrne song while ABC was shooting this campaign ad…
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Awwww how cute. Dreaming of unicorns and skittles falling from the heavens, and more dead babies from planned parenthood.
Does he need a blankie?
capejasmine on April 13, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Here’s a fun fact.
The combined wealth of every person living in the United States of America is $54 trillion.
Now, all we need to do is find someone outside of America willing to purchase every single piece of property all of us own.
ButterflyDragon on April 13, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Joe’s not sleeping, he’s closing his eyes, focusing very hard, and splitting atoms with his mind!
Christien on April 13, 2011 at 5:38 PM
Evidently, being Obama’s VP takes a toll.
ncborn on April 13, 2011 at 5:38 PM
I’m waiting for him to announce the kinetic tax cuts.
Kissmygrits on April 13, 2011 at 5:39 PM
I’m sure all the talk of Biden dozing off instead of the wonderful wonderfulness of the speech is going over very well with Obama.
AverageJoe on April 13, 2011 at 5:40 PM
angryed on April 13, 2011 at 5:34 PM
No one bit anyone’s head off. Just because you don’t think $3333/year is a BFD doesn’t mean that opinion is shared by the masses– if anything, I think phrasing it that way would make people more inclined to view budget cuts positively.
And again, the snowball effect is going to be what makes this option (personal payment of the per person debt) so dangerous for our long-term economic situation.
RachDubya on April 13, 2011 at 5:40 PM
I have a personal theory that Obama sleeps most of the day and they only wake him up to play golf or come in front of the cameras… today he was a little late getting out of bed.
Obama slept through the speech too, he didn’t even notice it was the same speech he gave in 2008.
petunia on April 13, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Look at the black lady behind him, she falling asleep to!
neuquenguy on April 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM
Joe was up late playing with the trains again.
Cicero43 on April 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM
O/T
Drudge Headline
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AZ passes bill requiring proof of US birth for prez candidates…
canopfor on April 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM
I picture him dreaming of THIS
JetBoy on April 13, 2011 at 5:42 PM
JoeBiden has now officially overshadowed this pitiful speech.
For the want of a nap
a speech was lost
for the want of a speech
a reelection was lost
for the want of a reelection
a presidency was lost
all for the want of a nap….
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:42 PM
You really think the average person will see $3333 and think it’s an unsustainable amount of money? I don’t. That’s $270 a month. It’s a cable bill and a nice dinner out. It’s not the apocalypse.
angryed on April 13, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Frikkin CLASSIC!
and did they have what to say about Mr. Potatoe head
NY Conservative on April 13, 2011 at 5:47 PM
Joe Biden is The Dream Weaver.
I have just closed my eyes again
And climbed aboard the Dream Weaver train
Driver, take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behind
Christien on April 13, 2011 at 5:47 PM
Aw, leave him alone. He just had a big f***in’ meal!
Jim Treacher on April 13, 2011 at 5:49 PM
Christien on April 13, 2011 at 5:47 PM
!!heh!
this is some overdue comedy gold….it’s been a famine lately
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:49 PM
You know…
… If I didn’t know any better, I would think that Obowma purposely wants to do harm to our Republic.
Seven Percent Solution on April 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM
that makes it all the more delicious.
mizflame98 on April 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM
I wish he would’ve started sleep walking like he was headed to the bathroom and taken a pi$$ in the potted plants or something…
ted c on April 13, 2011 at 5:51 PM
That’s $270/month not spent by each average American in the free market economy. The far-reaching implications include a weaker financial outlook nationwide, and increasing unemployment numbers.
JetBoy on April 13, 2011 at 5:51 PM
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